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| Handcrafted Seasonal Soap Collection | | By: | Jessica Newens |
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| Studio: | Tomboy Soap Co. |
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| | Specifics: | Handcrafted Body Products | | | Indulge in a variety of luscious, handcrafted soaps. Each box contains a selection of five full-size soaps, carefully chosen for the season, but available all-year long. The soaps are artfully packaged in a sage green gable box. Tomboy handcrafted body products are nourishing for you and your skin. Once you have tried Tomboy, you will not return to mass-produced soap and body products..
Spring: lemon, lime grapefruit, moonflower, sweet bee, herb
garden scrub
Summer: citrus, sage melissa, herb garden scrub, lavender rosewood,
moonflower
Fall: oatmeal spice, tangeline, lavender rosewood, espresso
swirl, cocoa butter swirl
Winter: peppermint poppy, eucalyptus, moonflower, lavender
rosewood, oatmeal spice | | | | Medium: vegetable oils, essential oils, herbs and spices
Weight: 2 lbs
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| | | About the Artist |
| Jessica Newens | | | | | Tomboy Soap Co. | | Background: | Tomboy founder - and sole employee - Jessica Newens decided to create a cottage business so she could afford to live in the San Juan Mountains. Life in the rugged mountains of southwestern Colorado comes with its challenges, but Jessica finds them easier to face down as her slow-motion development of a carefully crafted company takes hold. Jessica was taken by the idea of making and selling soap in 1995. Not only did she find soap an appealing medium for beautifully subtle colors and textures, but creating bars of soap allowed her to incorporate her growing passion for herbs into a utilitarian product.
Soon Jessica was experimenting with making cold-processed hand-crafted soaps. Jessica mastered her soapmaking skills, testing the results on family and friends, and began developing the original recipes that now make up Tomboy's permanent product line. Everything is hand-crafted, and begins with an intuition and ends with careful product testing.
Tomboy Soap Co. today is housed in a down-at-its-heels historic loft building in Norwood, forty-five minutes away from the booming resort town of Telluride.Tomboy Soap Co. is still a one-woman show, with Jessica doing everything from hauling upstairs 50-pound sacks of lye to creating and packaging the products to designing and printing the labels. Jessica earned a degree in English from Lewis and Clark College in 1992 and then moved to Telluride that same year. She has lived in Norwood since 1995, with her husband, Joel, and their three cats. | | | | Artist Statement: | "Tis a Gift to Be Simple
"I love the idea that nothing is left - that the entire product is used," she says of bars of soap. It is Tomboy Soap Company's mission to produce natural, healthful, ecological body products that don't use petroleum products, chemical preservatives or synthetic fragrances, oils or colorants. Tomboy Soap products are minimally processed and minimally packaged.
If you're ready to slow down and smell the flowers, Tomboy is ready to introduce you to the benefits of handcrafted soap and body products made from "essential" oils painstakingly extracted from flowers and herbs and paired with top-quality vegetable oils, plants, herbs and other natural ingredients - all without sacrificing the health of the world we live in! " | | See more of their works: Jessica Newens | | | | Technique: | Tomboy Soap Company History and Products
Named after Tomboy, the once-thriving turn-of-the-century company-mining town that today is a ghost town, hovering more than 1,000 feet above Telluride, Tomboy Soaps got their start in Telluride, Colorado, where dry skin is a way of life.No wonder Tomboy creator Jessica Newens, a lifelong resident of Colorado, has trained herself in the art of hand-crafting soaps that go beyond cleanliness to deliver soothing scents and sensations, and work to moisturize rather than dehydrate your skin.
Hand-crafted from a potpourri of meticulously measured combinations of pure essential oils, vegetable oils, herbs and spices, each bar of Tomboy soap is cold-processed so as to preserve precious nutrients. Individual soap's characteristics range from super-sudsy to gently exfoliating to lushly emollient to odor-lifting, their complex combinations belied by names that are simplicity itself – Sweet Bee, Herb Garden Scrub, Lime Grapefruit, Lavender Rosewood, Oatmeal Spice.
Recently Tomboy added a line of handcrafted, natural body products also made, once again, from carefully collected essential oils and herbs. Tomboy's new line of bath salts, bath milk, lip and body balm and more makes it easy to take up the following challenge: Get rid of your heavily perfumed commercial cosmetics, made with toxic additives and chemical preservatives. Discover the joy in products not trying to one-up Mother Nature. |
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